Introduction

NVIDIA unveiled the GeForce RTX 5050 toward the end of last month, initially stating that drivers and availability would arrive "later in July." Surprisingly, the drivers surfaced much sooner—this week—and we managed to secure a review unit from Gigabyte: their RTX 5050 Gaming OC model. Positioned as NVIDIA’s new entry-level GPU, the RTX 5050 serves as a long-awaited successor to the RTX 3050. Notably, NVIDIA skipped releasing a direct replacement during the RTX 40-series lineup, making this launch particularly significant. Priced from $250, it stands as the most budget-friendly modern NVIDIA graphics card—even less than the cost of current-gen gaming consoles. With low power consumption and compact case compatibility, it's ideal for upgrading basic office PCs into capable gaming machines. The RTX 5050 aims to deliver solid 1080p gaming performance, especially when leveraging DLSS technologies to balance visual fidelity and frame rates.

Built on NVIDIA’s cutting-edge Blackwell architecture, the RTX 5050 brings major advancements over the RTX 3050, most notably support for DLSS Frame Generation and the newly introduced Multi Frame Generation feature that debuted with DLSS 4. This generation also replaces older CNN-based upscaling models with a more advanced Transformer-based AI model, resulting in dramatically improved image clarity. In fact, even in titles where native 1080p performance exceeds 60 FPS, using DLSS Quality or DLAA often yields better visual results than traditional TAA.

The Blackwell architecture introduces a groundbreaking approach to rendering called Neural Rendering. By integrating generative AI to create 3D assets in real time—seamlessly blending them with traditional rasterized and ray-traced geometry—this technology unlocks new possibilities for future game design. Neural Rendering is powered by a dedicated hardware scheduler known as the AI Management Processor (AMP), enabling the GPU to simultaneously handle graphics rendering and AI inference tasks. Additionally, Blackwell’s 4th-gen RT cores support Mega Geometry, allowing ray-traced objects to maintain high geometric detail with accurate ray-triangle interactions.

At the heart of the RTX 5050 lies the new GB207 GPU, the smallest chip in NVIDIA’s Blackwell family. Fabricated on the 4N process—derived from TSMC’s N5 node, the same used for Ada Lovelace—it’s actually smaller than the AD107 found in the RTX 4060. The GB207 is optimized specifically for the RTX 5050, featuring 20 fully enabled streaming multiprocessors (SMs), translating to 2,560 CUDA cores, 80 Tensor cores, 20 RT cores, 80 texture units (TMUs), and 32 ROPs.

The RTX 5050 is equipped with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory connected via a 128-bit bus—the only model in the RTX 50-series to use GDDR6 instead of the newer GDDR7. Running at 20 Gbps, the memory delivers 320 GB/s of bandwidth. Like other Blackwell GPUs, it supports PCI-Express Gen 5, utilizing an x8 interface similar to the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti. The reference boost clock is set at 2572 MHz, though Gigabyte’s Gaming OC variant pushes this to 2632 MHz out of the box. With a modest TGP of 130W, the card requires only a single 8-pin PCIe power connector—even for factory-overclocked models. Gigabyte has set the price for their RTX 5050 Gaming OC at $275, which is $25 above the base MSRP.

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